"Il y a la France; il y a l'Afrique. Le temps de la Françafrique est... réincarné"? Exploring the drivers and character of French Security Policy in

“Il y a la France；il y a lAfrique。Le temps de la Françafrique est...réincarné”？

• 批准号: 1952906
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: University of Portsmouth
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2017
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2017 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-1952906
• 关键词: Il; la; France; il; Afrique.

Despite promising to reduce France's involvement in Africa after decades of 'Françafrique', thepresidency of François Hollande has seen one of the most activist periods of French engagement inAfrica in recent history - especially in response to violent jihadist Salafist groups both at home and inWest Africa (WA). In addition to renewed activism, the character of France's actions has shifted fromdirect engagement with regional organisations to novel bilateral security interventions. My proposedthesis will examine the contradiction between Hollande's initial objectives and this period of Frenchintervention with a view to understanding the drivers of and the shape taken by French security policyin WA. It will explore how, in a period of 'power diffusion' to non-state actors and globalinterconnectedness, local and global threats are increasingly blurred and intertwined, driving France -as a global player - back into West African security to support local allies. Focusing on the strategicallysignificant WA region this thesis will 1) examine the domestic and foreign policy considerations thatmotivated French involvement; 2) explore the new and innovative character of recent Frenchinterventions in the region; 3) assess how these interventions have been legitimised and 4) contributeto conceptual and theoretical debates on contemporary security and intervention.

尽管承诺在“法非”几十年后减少法国在非洲的参与，但弗朗索瓦·奥朗德的总统任期是近代历史上法国参与非洲事务最活跃的时期之一-特别是在应对国内和西非的暴力圣战萨拉菲斯特组织时。除了新的激进主义，法国行动的特点已经从直接参与地区组织转变为新颖的双边安全干预。我的proposedthesis将研究奥朗德的最初目标和法国干预这一时期之间的矛盾，以期了解的驱动程序和形状所采取的法国安全政策在西澳大利亚州。它将探讨如何，在一个“权力扩散”到非国家行为体和全球互联的时期，地方和全球威胁越来越模糊和交织在一起，推动法国-作为一个全球参与者-回到西非安全，以支持当地盟友。本论文以具有重要战略意义的西澳大利亚地区为重点，将1）研究激发法国参与的国内和外交政策考虑; 2）探索法国最近在该地区干预的新的和创新的特征; 3）评估这些干预是如何合法化的; 4）有助于当代安全和干预的概念和理论辩论。